December 01 2009
Upcoming workshop – March 2010
Stress and Social Development: Enabling people with ASD to cope with stressful situations and social development.
Presented by Alison Schroeder and Justine Aldous.
13th March 2010 at Pacific Park, 22-24 Wallace Street, Dunedin, 9 - 3pm.
cost: $40 family, $60 Professional.
Please download the PDF for more info about this valuable event.
November 18 2009
Welcome to our new site!
We want to provide local people with better info, and help health and education professionals and policy-makers to better understand our stories. Please contact us with any suggestions or questions.
June 04 2009
Wacky Hair Day
The trust organised a Wacky Hair Day as part of Autism Awareness week 1 June – 7 June. All schools and kindergartens in the Dunedin region were approached to support us with our aim to build awareness of autism with Dunedin children by raising funds to hold a workshop in early 2010.
April 18 2009
Local family living with autism
Article in Otago Daily Times about member’s of our trust the von Ballmoos family. Read article here.
March 24 2009
You might have already looked at clips on YouTube of therapy and various kinds of resources and education ideas for people with autism. Here’s an example below from Canada: a company called AutismPro.
Given the scale of financial investment in these things, it probably needs a debate about whether online resources can make an effective enough substitute for things like teaching and goal-setting
Local company in autism education deal
A company called Innovative Learning are involved in a lucrative deal, in which they will provide new education programmes to help professionals gain more skills in this area. Read the Otago Daily Times article here. You might be interested in reading the interpretation of ‘autism epidemic’ which someone has posted there also.You might have already looked at clips on YouTube of therapy and various kinds of resources and education ideas for people with autism. Here’s an example below from Canada: a company called AutismPro.
Given the scale of financial investment in these things, it probably needs a debate about whether online resources can make an effective enough substitute for things like teaching and goal-setting
- The charitable trust was set up in 2004. We rely mostly on grants, donations and our fundraising to pay for therapists’ wages and training, and for education for parents, teachers and the community.
- The trust focuses on raising funds for Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) therapy. This involves targeted individual learning programmes, and one-on-one teaching in the home, and also in school. Therapy hours are flexible and able to meet the requirements of the child and family.
- We have great therapists who are terrific with the kids. The therapists are trained and assessed regularly under the umbrella of our service provider, Intervention Services for Autism and Developmental Delay (ISADD).
- Our children range from pre-school to school age.
- While ABA is government funded in some countries, it is not yet publicly funded in New Zealand.
Otago Children’s Autism Support Group Contacts
ChairpersonNicola Herbertph: (03) 454 6567 e-mail: nicolaherbert@xtra.co.nz |
SecretaryLynlee von Ballmoosph: (03) 453 4812 e-mail: lynlee@vitalcolour.co.nz |
Grants OfficerRachel Mortimerph (03) 453 0757 e-mail: morts@xtra.co.nz |